@inbook{b041d91d30f94a93866bbc359f51047e,
title = "Framing the Self in Early Modern Curatorial Strategies of Porcelain Display",
abstract = "Early modern porcelain display offers an exceptionally rich field of study for a reflection on the intersecting biographies of people and things. This chapter reconsiders two curatorial strategies – massed display and mounting – practised during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Holland, Germany, and England to frame this boundary-defying material. The conventional framing of massed displays or {\textquoteleft}porcelain rooms{\textquoteright} as a culminating phase in the integration of imported ceramics within European collections imposes an artificial distinction between these strategies. However, in addition to the material parallel between the application of a gilt-metal mount and insertion into a designed interior, a conceptual affinity can be noted in their mutual emphasis on framing. As mounts frame a chosen porcelain vessel, so the structural ornament of a massed display frames those within. Both curatorial strategies can therefore be situated as parallel expressions of a shared emphasis on the constitutive mediation of the foreign and the familiar, self and other, and people and things.",
author = "Alex Burchmore",
year = "2024",
month = oct,
day = "31",
doi = "10.5040/9781350416475.ch-009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781350416444",
pages = "195--223",
booktitle = "Material Selves",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Publishing",
address = "United Kingdom",
}